Véra BelmontFilmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Survivre avec les loups

Crew: Director

Actors: Mathilde Goffart

Synopsis: Véra Belmont's World War II-era, French-language drama Survivre avec les loups dramatizes the incredible true story of a 7-year-old Jewish girl from Brussels named Misha Defonseca (Mathilde Goffart). In the year 1941, Misha's parents are deported by the Nazis; left behind, she protects herself by Read More

1/16/07
Chok Dee

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Abdellah Didane, Bernard Giraudeau, Florence Vanida Faivre, Lakshan, Sombat Medhanee

Synopsis: Based on the real life of star Dida Diafat, Chok Dee: The Kickboxer relates the tale of how Diafat learned his remarkable fighting skills. While imprisoned, Diafat came under the training of a Thai Boxing expert. At his mentor's urging, Diafat attempts to join a school that teaches an even more Read More

2005
Marquise

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte

Synopsis: A glorious dancer and a beautiful actress, Marquise (originally known as mademoiselle Du Parc) won the hearts of some of mid-17th-century France's brightest lights, including Moliere, the actor Racine and even the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Beginning with considerable comedy and ending with Read More

8/20/97
Farinelli

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining Read More

1994
Eminent Domain

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate

Synopsis: Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches out to his friends for moral support, but they turn their backs on him. Worse still, he doesn't know why he's been targeted Read More

4/12/91
Milena

Crew: Director

Actors: Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Nick Mancuso, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Though featuring a down-beat ending, this true tale of a Czech journalist who gives her life helping the oppressed during the years prior to WWII is an inspirational one. Milen Jesnska began her quest to help others in 1920 Prague when she defied her father's wishes that she become a doctor like Read More

1991
La Vie Est Belle

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Papa Wemba

Synopsis: Kourou (Papa Wemba) is a poor country boy who travels to the city in this romantic musical comedy. He falls in love with Kabibi (Krubwa Bibi), but her mother arranges her marriage as a second wife to a businessman whose first wife remains childless. When a medium convinces the husband to wait a Read More

1987
Fucking Fernand

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jean Yanne, Marie Laforêt, Martin Lamotte, Charlotte Valandrey

Synopsis: Ferdinand (Thierry Lhermitte) is a 30-year-old blind virgin who hopes to have sex in this black comedy. He lives in a religious institution and is not beyond making passes at nuns. When the asylum is bombed, Ferdinand escapes and hooks up with Binet (Jean Yanne), a killer being tracked by the Read More

1987
Rouge Baiser

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Günter Lamprecht, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Red Kiss is set in the politically supercharged Paris of 1952. 15-year-old French girl Charlotte Valandrey, the daughter of radicals, is severely beaten by the constabulary while attending a communist rally. Photojournalist Lambert Wilson pauses long enough to take a picture of the bloodied Valandrey Read More

1985
Bayan Ko

Crew: Producer

Actors: Phillip Salvador, Gina Alajar, Claudia Zobel, Raoul Aragon, Rez Cortez

Synopsis: This movie is an interweaving of several true events into a coherent story line which was intended to point out the inherent corruption in the government of the Philippines at all different levels. Delayed by censors while they tried to find a way to keep the movie from being released, eventually Read More

1984
Les Mots Pour Le Dire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Marie-Christine Barrault, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Rich, Jean-Luc Boutte

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Marie Cardinal, this well-acted psychological drama details the tormented relationship between Marie (Nicole Garcia) and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane (Marie-Christine Barrault) had lost a child Read More

1983
La Jument Vapeur

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carole Laure, Pierre Santini, Liliane Rovere

Synopsis: Dirty Dishes is a Bunuel study in alienation, but look again: that's Joyce Bunuel, not Luis, so Dirty Dishes is more user-friendly. French housewife Carol Laure isn't satisfied with her lot, but what else is there? One day the monotony is too much; she snaps, and goes on a one-woman rebellion Read More

1982
Legitime Violence

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Planchon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated Read More

1982
Quest for Fire

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi, Gary Schwartz

Synopsis: Quest for Fire takes place some 80,000 years in the past. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman), and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) are sent out on a "quest Read More

1981
La Guerre des Polices

Crew: Producer

Actors: Claude Rich, Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert, François Perier, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: Fush (Claude Brasseur) and Ballestrat (Claude Rich) are the rival police detectives who head different departments trying to capture a notorious gangster in this crime thriller. Both are not above using underhanded and illegal means to attain their goals. Marie (Marlene Jobert) a the female cop in Read More

1979
Prisonniers de Mao

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jean Pasqualini was the child of a Corsican Frenchman and a Chinese mother, living in China. When the communist regime tightened its controls over Chinese society in 1957, Pasqualini was sentenced to 12 years of "re-education" as a "counterrevolutionary." In 1964, he was expelled from the country Read More

1979
L'Enfance Nue

Crew: Producer, Production Director

Actors: Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutemberg, Raoul Billerey, Marie-Louise Thierry

Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is Read More

1967
Tant Qu' On A La Sante

Actors: Pierre Etaix, Denise Peronne, Véra Belmont

Synopsis: Pierre Etaix directed and starred in this comedy that offers an offbeat look at seemingly normal situations. A physician finds himself even more stressed and sickly than his patients. Another scene finds an idyllic campground being run like a concentration camp complete with barbed wire. There are Read More

1966